On-ice antics overshadow community hockey event Hundreds of hockey fans in Jasper came out for Super Sunday March 12, the culmination of a winter’s worth of rivalries between the six teams which make up the Jasper Hockey League . The community event is an opportunity for players in the league to sho...

Super Sunday content brought to Jasper Local readers by Earls in The Rockies Four Jasper Hockey League teams will fight it out for a spot in the March 12 Super Sunday “A” Final. After a decisive four-goal victory against the JFI Bonestars on Thursday night, the Jasper Brewing Co. Barley Kings head i...

Super Sunday content brought to Jasper Local readers by Earls in The Rockies Hockey Night in Jasper has a new voice. With every play in the Jasper Hockey League, the voice trills with emotion. It salutes every goal, celebrates every save and erupts into chaos with every goal-mouth scrum or hard-nose...

Fifteen teams and one soloist signed up for the Winter Pentathlon Hivernal on February 4, the five-event festival that was organized once again by the local francophone association, ACFA . Playing out on the snow-covered shores, sun-polished ice and tramped-down trails surrounding Mildred Lake at th...

An all-female hockey team in Jasper is breaking the glass ceiling of boys-dominated sports. The U11 Grizzly Girls have joined the Northern Alberta Interlock league, a move which represents a novelty in Jasper and also a first for the league. Coach Janelle Tank is helping tow the Grizzlies to new gro...

A Jasper high school volleyball team whose core squad has been together since junior high has high aspirations for their senior season. The Jasper boys team qualified this year for Volleyball Alberta’s Indoor Club System. Having played together as the Jasper Volleyball Club Chargers in the spring, t...

Andrew Bovard is back on top of the 24 hour solo mountain biking podium. The 45-year-old Jasperite took home first place in the Masters category at the recent Canadian Rockies 24 , held at Canmore’s nordic centre. “That course is the hardest 2-4 course,” Bovard said. “It’s rooty, rutty and rocky.” B...

The dream of a skatepark in Jasper is one set of stairs closer to reality. On August 11 the Jasper Skatepark Committee received news that their project has been approved for the federal government’s Healthy Communities Initiative Grant , financial support to the tune of $91,363. The boost will help ...

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is still being studied, but high water events in the Rockies offer clues Medicine Lake has breached its banks for the fourth year in a row and a river scientist from the University of Lethbridge is suggesting the occurrence has not as much to do with climate change—al...

When 16-year-old freestyle skier Gage LeBlanc gets into the starting gates of a mogul course, he has to stare down 160 knee-high bumps of solid snow and ice, plus two huge jumps off of which he will spin, flip and twist through the air. “It can be intimidating,” LeBlanc explained. “You have to reall...